Numbering the Indians, Wikwemikong, Manitoulin Island (Ontario), 16 August 1856

Numbering the Indians, Wikwemikong, Manitoulin Island (Ontario), 16 August 1856
||Inscribed in brown water colour, l.l.: Wm. Armstrong 18[...; ''18...'' erased]; In erased red water colour, l.l.: .08; In pen & ink, mount vso u.l.: [...trimmed] / (Manitoulin id) / [Chie]f Assigenack (deserving chief) is shown naming the Indians to / [Cap]tn Ironsides, Indian Superintendent, whose office was in building, [le?]ft, in a front room: Many of the Indians had to be told / [thei]r proper names by Chief Assigenack who was provided / [by] the government with an Undress Uniform: Two [?] HB Voyageurs / [are] represented in Centre of picture in their pretty dress / WA; In pencil, mount vso c.r.: 3130 [and with framing instructions, etc.]||Laid down on brown cardboard mount.||A photograph (Acc. D 5-77b) shows this water colour before the erasure l.l. of ''18...'' and ''.08'', and is inscribed on scrapbook page mount: Numbering Indians at Wequamikoong [?] / Manitoulin Island 16 Aug 1856||Another water colour version by Armstrong of this view is reproduced in Campbell, 'Early Days on the Great Lakes', pp. 66-7.||JRR (1912) 357||